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To find the magnitude uncertainty of a series RL impedance, put . Then and
If the quoted errors are independent standard uncertainties, and give
If they denote strict bounds instead, the first-order bound is . The source does not specify their statistical interpretation, so these two error conventions should not be conflated.

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